临床与实验神经免疫学杂志

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The Discovery of a Degenerative Neurological Syndrome in Teenagers and Adults who Experience Chronic Vitamin E Deficiency

Deborah Brosnan

Despite the normal damaging impact of diet E deficiency on the fearful gadget of many experimental animal fashions for decades, solely over the previous decade has diet E turn out to be identified as integral for the preservation of the shape and feature of the human worried system. This discovery of the neurologic function of diet E in man is due especially to the identification of a degenerative neurologic syndrome in teens and adults with continual diet E deficiency prompted by using gastrointestinal ailments impairing fats and diet E absorption. A compelling physique of clinical, neuropathology, and therapeutic response proof conclusively demonstrates that nutrition E deficiency is accountable for the neurologic disease considered in such patients.